This Fabricated Police Story Would Have Prevailed Had It Not Been For Concerned Citizens

[kpete]

Last edited Wed Apr 21, 2021, 08:53 AM - Edit history (2)

This fabricated police story might have become the official account of George Floyd’s death if concerned citizens had not intervened and recorded the police.

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[empedocles]

1. Didn't see coverage of the 'fabrication' on cable. Think many still unaware.

[KPN]

17. There was an earlier post today that linked to a media report

which was identical. I don’t remember for sure but my memory (which these days can be a risky bet) says NY Times? Perhaps someone else can verify one way or the other. Point: it did get broadcast to at least some extent.

[spooky3]

19. Rachel Maddow covered it. Nt

[StarfishSaver]

2. And people wonder why some of us aren't quick to give cops the benefit of the doubt

when they claim they HAD to shoot someone.

[krkaufman]

12. Too many examples

Just look at the initial reports and statements Re: the shooting of 13-yr-old Adam Toledo

[StarfishSaver]

13. Yep

And people immediately accepted those at face value and are repeating them in defense of the shooting. Even people on DU are doing it.

It's very much like what William Barr did with the Mueller Report - he got out first with the lie and that's all anyone remembers, even after the facts come out and prove the initial narrative wrong.

[Alice Kramden]

3. We must record w our cell phones

Like this witness to George Floyd's murder did. Kudos to her.

[Sanity Claws]

4. I was unaware that this fabrication existed

Chauvin was fully aware of the number of witnesses and the existence of video of what really happened. Yet he felt emboldened enough to come up with this total fabrication.
No first timer would have come up with such a total fabrication. He's done similar shit many times in the past, IMHO.

[StarfishSaver]

14. This happens all the time

[RockRaven]

5. No consequences for the MPD liars who disseminated that falsehood, were there?

The whole department participated. They always do.

Cops all over the country know they have liars and "bad apples" amongst them but the departments always amplify the lies of murderers to protect the department and deceive the public. Every time. They do it automatically, by default. They are the other apples in the barrel -- they are all rotten in the end.

[underpants]

6. I heard a reporter on NPR mention this this afternoon

As the hosts spoke to different reporters in different spots around Minneapolis one mentioned the “big takeaway” for him was receiving this report via email. He felt that it just sounded so benign.

[FarPoint]

7. Wonder where one could find this page and then repost?

I have no idea how to find it...sure is a good example...a keeper to compare...

[kpete]

8. I found this from SNOPES

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/george-floyd-medical-incident/

[FarPoint]

10. thank you....

[niyad]

15. Nevilledog posted the whole lying piece of garbage earlier. It is on greatest page. Sorry I cannot

link it, my computer has a weird glitch that will not allow me to link or copy and paste.

[MarcA]

9. Thankfully we had video records this time.

How many times in the past did events like this, or even worse, happen and there was no video or even this level of reports. Whatever the police said was accepted and that was it. Law and Order: keep everyone in their place in the Order.

[Mister Ed]

11. A whitewashing, in every sense.

And, I believe, Standard Operating Procedure in a case like this.

[BobTheSubgenius]

16. $110,000 for parroting the log?

Who couldn't do that? Anyone who values their integrity more than a pretty decent income?

[spooky3]

18. Thank you, Ms. Darnella Frazier, for your courage in making the video

and posting it online.

[Kid Berwyn]

20. Conspiracy.

Yet when the authorities break the law, it’s not.

[SteelSmasher]

21. I remember

When Michael Brown was murdered.
I thought "The report the police made is a lie. They will release a mutually contradictory statement in a week which will also be a lie.
It will be followed by another mutually contradictory lie the week after that".
I was right.
They like to say "So there's a few bad apples...". "No big deal" is implied.
A few rotten apples spoil the barrel.